Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 22

Births

• 1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
• 1707 - Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754) (pictured)
• 1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
• 1870 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1924)
• 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
• 1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
• 1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor

Deaths

• 1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)
• 1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
• 1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States (b. 1913)
• 1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927)